Amphipholis squamata (Delle Chiaje, 1828)

Mills, V. Sadie & O'Hara, Timothy D., 2013, Ophiuroids (Echinodermata; Ophiuroidea) of biogenic habitats on the continental shelf of New Zealand, Zootaxa 3613 (5), pp. 401-444 : 410-411

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Amphipholis squamata (Delle Chiaje, 1828)
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Amphipholis squamata (Delle Chiaje, 1828)

Asteria squamata Delle Chiaje, 1828: 74 .

Amphiura parva Hutton, 1878: 305 [synonymised by Benham, 1909].

Amphiura squamata .—Lyman, 1879: 32.—Lyman, 1882: 136.

Amphiura elegans .—Farquhar, 1898: 191–192.—Farquhar, 1907: 125.

Amphipholis australiana Clark, H.L., 1909a: 540 –541, pl. 52(1–3) [synonymised by Clark, H.L., 1938].

Amphipholis squamata .—Benham, 1911: 152–153.—Clark, H.L., 1921: 106–107.—Mortensen, 1924: 161–162.—Koehler, 1930: 102–103.—Mortensen, 1936: 292–293.—Clark, H.L., 1938: 243–244.—Clark, H.L., 1946: 202.—Fell, 1952: 20.—Fell, 1953: 102.—Fell, 1958: 28.—Clark, A.M., 1970: fig. 1g.—Clark, A.M. & Rowe, 1971: 80–81, 99, fig. 27b, pl. 13(5).—Clark, A.M. & Courtman-Stock, 1976: 151–152, fig. 138.—Fenwick & Horning, 1980: 439.—Paterson, 1985: 91, fig. 36.

Axiognathus squamata .—McKnight, 1967a: 311–312.—McKnight, 1967b: 325.

Material Examined. Bay of Islands. TAN0906/33, NIWA 54873 (2). TAN0906/87, NIWA 55547 (1). Marlborough Sounds. TAN1105/156, NIWA 77843 (1). West Coast North Island. TAN1105/88, NIWA 77842 (1).

Diagnosis. Disc scaled dorsally and ventrally, radial shields contiguous. Primary plates not obvious in adult animals. Two distal oral papillae: square proximal papilla, low and wide oblong distal oral papilla. Three arm spines, 2 tentacle scales. Viviparous, bioluminescent.

Description. See Mortensen (1924).

Distribution. New Zealand, Australia, circumglobal in temperate and tropical waters (0–1000 m).

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